Hillary Clinton is ready and qualified to be a magnificent Madam President

Thank you Senator Elizabeth Warren for your energetic endorsement of Secretary Hillary Clinton to be elected the first qualified woman President of the United States.

Elizabeth Warren endorses Hillary Clinton- by Annie Linskey

WASHINGTON -- Senator Elizabeth Warren ended months of neutrality in the Democratic primary Thursday and endorsed Hillary Clinton, urging supporters of Bernie Sanders to get behind the presumptive nominee and help defeat Donald Trump.

Warren’s endorsement followed President Obama’s by just a few hours, but it could be equally as important in rallying a liberal base that is suspicious of Clinton because of her warm relations with Wall Street and a track record of supporting international free trade deals.


“I’m ready,” said Warren in an interview with The Globe Thursday evening. “I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House.”
Asked whether Clinton should release the transcripts of paid speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs, Warren said: “That’s for her to decide — there will be a whole lot of issues to talk about over the next several months.” Sanders frequently calls on Clinton to release them.

“I’m supporting Hillary Clinton because she’s a fighter, a fighter with guts,” Warren said.

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The senator from Mass. delivered the remarks in Washington on Thursday.She praised Sanders saying that he’s run an “incredible campaign” -- and said that she didn’t want to “get into” speculation about whether she might serve as Clinton’s vice president.

Warren discussed the endorsement in an appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, on June 9th.

She moved up her timeline to endorse Clinton — she had initially planned to do it next week — soon after President Obama gave his nod to Clinton Thursday. Warren was one of the highest profile Democrats still on the sidelines in the Democratic contest.

Warren will be speaking to a liberal audience when she makes her first pitch on behalf of Clinton on MSNBC.

Maddow has been a Sanders booster over the course of the year-long campaign, though has more recently cooled on him as it’s become clear that he could not win.

Ideologically, Warren is much closer to Sanders than Clinton, who has been much cozier with Wall Street bankers during her career.

The Massachusetts Senator said repeatedly that she would endorse a candidate during the primary, but her nod is coming after Clinton has claimed the nomination.

By sitting out during the primary contests, liberal activists were left to make up their minds about what Warren was intending. At rallies across the country her silence was typically perceived as support for Sanders.

 The endorsement of Clinton doesn’t seem to be immediately affecting the relationship between the two New England senators.

“Warren and Sanders are friendly, they are fighting for the same issues,” said Symone Sanders, a Sanders spokeswoman after news broke that Warren would back Clinton.

As of 1 p.m. Thursday, Sanders of Vermont had no plans to meet with Warren, according to Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs.

In the past few days Warren has sent signals that she was preparing to back Clinton. Over the weekend at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention Warren undercut the only path Sanders now has to the Democratic nomination.

Sanders and his top aides have at times said that they would not concede the Democratic primary until July, and use that time to convince the superdelegates to switch their vote away from Clinton — even though Clinton won the popular vote, won the majority of pledged delegates, and the larger share of states and territories.

“I don’t think that superdelegates ought to sway the election,” said Warren, referring to the Democratic party leaders who are allowed to vote in the nomination process. “I’m a superdelegate, and I don’t believe in superdelegates,” Warren said.